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All the Stuff I Can't Let Go
The other week, I was going through my old stuff -- boxes and boxes of them. I found the autograph book I bought when I was in sixth grade. I found old letters, cards and notebooks. I found old books and old school uniforms. I found many other things. If it were only easy, I would throw all the stuff in those boxes so I could have more room in my bedroom. But I refuse to throw away old stuff.
While writing this, I'm wearing a very old shirt -- full of holes, the colors have faded, and the cloth has thinned. It is a shirt back when I was only 13. Let's see...that's 12 years ago. Why do I wear it when I have many perfectly good shirts in my closet? Why, whenever I find out that my mother has put it in the box labelled "Throw-aways," I take it out and put it back in my closet and wear it more often than I would all the other new shirts combined?
Like me, you might have things you still keep with you even though you can easily discard them. The thing is, many of us have difficulty letting go of things that have outlived their usefulness. So why do you keep them? Often times, we keep things to remind us of an event, or an experience/situation we've been in.
If you look at all the old stuff you have -- stuff you couldn't bear to throw away -- you'll see that exploring your reasons for not throwing them away can help you come up with materials for writing.
And to help you "unearth" these materials for writing, you can use many creative writing techniques. One of these techniques is brainstorming.
Brainstorming is a tool used for problem solving. Like freewriting, brainstorming doesn't require you to be too logical with the solutions you come up with.
In creative writing, when you are given a prompt question that needs to be addressed, you give solutions to it, no matter how weird or wild these solutions are.
For example: How do you fix a picture frame that keeps falling off the wall?
After brainstorming and listing, freewriting is usually the next technique used.
Here are some prompts for you to brainstorm:
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